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Could you give me a pointer on how to do that, where to look for tips, what to search for, what to read up on, which script language to use?? Then we can bend it to fit our needs. As I said, I have extremely little experience with html.

Depending on what you need to do with the data, you could use any language, even user scripts (Javascript) that run through your browser. I would use PHP or Javascript but that's just because I am most familiar with those.

Firstly, you cannot do this in HTML. HTML is a simple page display language. It supports no variables, loops or data processing (other than the ability to accept form data and pass it to an external process for manipulation).

The process you are asking to perform is called "page scraping" and is not very reliable, as it depends upon the structure of the web page remaining largely unchanged (which you have no control over). However, as this is merely a training exercise, that is not a major issue in this case.

The most common languages used to process a web page to extract the info you require are JavaScript (browser based) or PHP (server based). Which you choose generally depends upon your experience, but in this case should probably be determined by the language being studied. I.e. If a person is studying JavaScript, a PHP solution (although it may be superior) would not be appropriate!

Oh, and by the way, we do not do students' homework for them. What we need is for the student to make an attempt at the task (in whatever language is appropriate) and we may then be able to assist with specific issues that arise.

A bit of poking around suggests to me that the data in question gets populated by a separate AJAX request, so you might have to dig through the JavaScript on the page to figure out what that call is, in which case you can call it yourself, perhaps receiving a JSON object that will be easier to work with than the HTML.

I said to him, the new data must be entered by someone somewhere, by hand, presumably. Get to them and ask them to send it directly. That's my poor man's version of " the data in question gets populated by a separate AJAX request".